OMG Oh My God! is about
something that touches all our lives - religion. It is a film about our
relationship with God, how instead of being God-loving, we have become God-fearing. How religion has become a business run by godmen (here
aptly referred to as 'salesmen') who aren't in fact very spiritual at all. A
note to atheists and agnostics - the film is not an endorsement of those views.
It insists on the existence of God.

Kanji Lalji Mehta, played by Paresh Rawal, is an
avowed atheist who runs an antiques shop. Kanji is a wily salesman. He weaves
tall tales around his wares and sells 200-rupee idols for thousands. The
faithful are always ready to pay. As Kanji puts it: "Shraddha ka kaam hai, jitna dalo, utna kum."

One day, an earthquake destroys Kanji's shop.
The insurance company refuses to pay, saying it was an act of God. So Kanji,
defiant, furious and abandoned by his family, goes to court and sues God. The
story is an adaptation of a very successful Gujarati play, which later became a
hit in Hindi and Marathi too. The original template is an Australian film
called The Man Who Sued God. Sadly, here, a terrific play makes for limp
cinema.

Director Umesh Shukla, who has also directed the
play, is bogged down by the burden of Bollywood. So we must have an item number
with Sonakshi Sinha and Prabhu Deva. Shukla must also make room for the
mega-stardom of Akshay Kumar, who is both producer and God.

Akshay plays God, which would have worked well if
the film didn't have to build him up so much. He is introduced with an
elaborate action sequence, featuring tacky special effects, in which he rescues
Kanji from religious fanatics. This God comes to earth on a snazzy motorcycle
and wears, among other things, a long purple jacket. His face is always bathed
in a strange, diffused light. And there are scores of frames of him just
smiling benevolently or looking wisely into the distance.

Paresh is wonderful as the stubborn, smart and
eccentric Kanji. He gets a few fiery scenes in court, but the film sags because
the other characters are so flimsy. Mithun Chakraborty, in a hideous wig, plays
a weird, fey guru. Govind Namdeo is a godman who constantly eats fruits and
shakes with anger almost every time he speaks. Eventually OMG Oh My God!
dissipates into a lecture. The intentions are good, but the preaching is
boring.

Paresh Rawal, as usual, rises above the material.
He is the force in this film.

Thursday, 27 September 2012

Wonder Woman is an adaptation of the popular comic book
character in the DC Universe, and is soon to be a major motion picture.

The sexy, strong yet dignified Wonder Woman fits the bill. Superhero
movies are hit or miss, but most agree that the past decade has been a golden
era for comic based super hero movies.
Think X-Men, Iron Man and the Chris Nolan Batman movies (i.e. Batman
Begins and The Dark Knight).The film has gone through more writers and
directors than Gigli. In some ways, the character should be easy to make into a
film, but with how iconic she’s become, it may prove difficult for a movie
studio to appropriately adapt the comic for the screen.

Wonder Woman is going to be something terrible and stinks up
the theatres 2013.

An actress
who said she was duped into appearing in an anti-Islam film that stoked violent
protests across the Muslim world took her legal bid to federal court on
Wednesday in a renewed effort to force it off YouTube. The lawsuit filed by
Cindy Lee Garcia names the popular online video site YouTube and its parent company Google Inc. As defendants,
along with the Egyptian-American Coptic Christian from California believed to
be behind the making of the film. Last week, a Los Angeles Superior
Court judge denied Garcia's request for a temporary restraining order that
would have required YouTube to stop posting the crudely made 13-minute video, finding the actress was
unlikely to prevail on the merits of her case in state court. As in her previous lawsuit, Garcia
accused the purported filmmaker of fraud, libel and unfair business practices.
But her federal lawsuit also asserts a copyright claim to her performance in
the video, titled "The Innocence of Muslims."

Tuesday, 25 September 2012

Biggest-ever Tamil movie "I" is shooting in China . Except Chiyaan Vikram, the entire unit has left Chennai last weekend for a 45-days schedule. Reports say that Vikram will be joining the shoots once he finishes the promotions of his this week release Thaandavam.However, the team headed by Shankar (director) is off to China to shoot the important portions of the movie. The script of the movie demands some of the best locales of China. Hence, the makers of the film, without compromising, decided to shoot in the Land of the Sleeping Giant.

It is said that "I" is 100 times bigger than Anniyan movie, which was made by the same formidable trio of Vikram, Shankar and Aascar Ravichandran. Like their earlier movie, this movie is packed with actions, colourful sets and rich costumes.

However, I also stars Amy Jackon. Oscar Award winner A.R. Rahman is composing the music and PC Sriram is handling the camera. The interesting part of the story is that some of the well-known technicians from Hollywood are working in this project.